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Ansel Adams
(1902-1984) Photographer
Ann
Bancroft (1931-present) Actress
Alexander Graham Bell (1862-1939) Telephone
Inventor
Harry
Andersen (1952-present) Actor
Hans Christian
Anderson (1805-1875) Author
Beethoven (1770-1827) Composer
Harry Belafonte
(1927-present) Actor, Vocalist
Col.
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (1912-1988)
WWII Flying Ace (Black Sheep Squadron Leader)
Terry Bradshaw (1948-Present) Football
Quarterback
George Burns (1896-1996) Actor
Sir
Richard Francis Burton
(1821-1890)
Explorer, Linguist, Scholar, Writer
Admiral Richard Byrd
(1888-1957) Aviator
(Was retired from the navy as, "Unfit for service")
Thomas Carlyle
(1795-1881)
Scottish historian, critic, and sociological writer
Andrew Carnegie - (1835-1919)
Industialist
Jim Carrey
(1962-present) Comedian
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) Author (Alice in
Wonderland)
Prince
Charles (1948-present) Future King of England
Cher
(1946-present) Actress/Singer
Agatha
Christie (1890-1976) Author
Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Statesman
(Failed the sixth grade)
Bill Cosby
(1937-present) Actor
Tom Cruise
(1962-present) Actor
Harvey Cushing M.D.
(1869-1939)
Greatest Neurosurgeon of the 20th Century
Salvador Dali
(1904-1989) Artist
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Inventor, Artist
John Denver
(1943-1997) Musician
Walt Disney
(1901-1971)
(A newspaper editor fired him because he had "No good ideas".)
Kirk Douglas
(1916-2004) Actor
Thomas Edison
(1847-1931) Inventor
(His teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything)
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955) Physicist
(Famous
Tongue Sticking Out Picture)
(Einstein was four years old before he could speak,
and seven before he could read)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) U. S.
President, Military General
Michael Faraday
(1791-1867) British Physicist, Chemist
F.
Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Author
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) Forbes Magazine
Founder & Publisher
Henry Ford
(1863-1947) Automobile Innovator
Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790) Politician, Elder Statesman
Galileo (Galilei)
(1564-1642) Mathematician, Astronomer
Danny Glover (1947-present) Actor
Tracey Gold
(1969-present) Actress
Whoopi
Goldberg (1955-present) Actress
Georg
Frideric Handel
(1685-1759) Composer
Valerie Hardin Gothic Poet, Artist, Children's
Author
Mariette
Hartley (1940-present)
Actress (Tells of her and daughter's ADD)
William
Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) Newspaper Magnate
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) Author
Mariel
Hemingway (1961) Actress
Milton
Hershey "The Chocolate King"
(1857-1945)
Dustin
Hoffman (1937-present) Actor
Bruce Jenner (1949-present) Athlete
Luci Baines Johnson (1947-present) LBJ's
Daughter
"Magic" Johnson
(1959-present) Basketball Player
Samuel Johnson Author
Michael Jordan
(1963-present) Basketball Player
John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963) U. S. President
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968) U.S. Attorney
General
Jason Kidd (1973-present)
Professional Basketball Player
John Lennon
(1940-1980) Musician
Frederick Carlton (Carl) Lewis
(1961-present)
Olympic Gold Metalist, American track-and-field athlete.
Meriwether Lewis (Lewis & Clark) (1774 -1809)
Explorer
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) U.S. President
(Entered The Black Hawk War as a Captain and came out a Private)
Greg Louganis
(1960-present) Olympic
Gold Medalist (Diving)
James Clerk Maxwell
(1831-1879) British Physicist
Steve McQueen (1930-1980) Actor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Composer
Napoleon
Bonaparte
(1769-1873) Emperor
Nasser
(Gamal Abdel-nasser) (1918-1970) Egyptian Leader
Sir Issac Newton
(1642-1727) Scientist, Mathematician
(Did poorly in grade school)
Nostradamus
(1503-1566) Physician, Prophet
Ozzy Osbourne
(1948-present) said he was ADHD on TV
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) Scientist
(Rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College)
General George Patton (1885-1945) Military
Pablo
Picasso (1882-1973) Artist
Edgar
Allan Poe (1809-1849) Author, Poet
Rachmaninov
(1873-1943) Composer
Eddie
Rickenbacker (1890-1973) WWI
Flying Ace
John
D. Rockefeller
(1839-1937)
Founder, Standard Oil Company
Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979) U.S. Vice
President
August
Rodin (1840-1917) Artist, Sculptor
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
(1844-1962) First Lady
Pete Rose (1941-present) Baseball Player
Babe Ruth
(1895-1948) Baseball Legend
Nolan Ryan
(1947-present) Baseball Player
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat
(1918-1981) Egyptian President
Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1976
George C. Scott (1927-1999)
Actor
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)Author
Will Smith
Actor, Rapper, Entertainer
Tom Smothers
(1937-present) Actor, Singer, Entertainer
Socrates
(469-399 B.C.) Philosopher
Suzanne
Somers (1946-present) Actress
Steven Spielberg (1946-present) Filmmaker
Sylvester Stallone (1946-present) Actor
Jackie
Stewart (1939-present) Grand Prix Hall of
Famer
James Stewart
(1908-1997) Actor
Henry David
Thoreau (1817-1862) Author
(Lev
Nikolayevich) Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910) Russian Author
(Flunked out of college)
Alberto Tomba (1966-present) Italian Alpine
Ski Champion
Vincent
van Gogh (1853-1890)
Artist
Jules Verne (1828-1905) Author
Werner von Braun (1912-1977) Rocket
Scientist
Flunked 9th grade algebra.
Lindsay
Wagner (1949-present) Actress (Bionic Woman)
Gen. William C. Westmoreland (1914-present)
Military (Vietnam Era)
Robin Williams (1952-present) Comedian
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) U. S. President
Henry
Winkler (1945-present)
Actor (Fonzie)
Stevie Wonder
(1950-present ) Musician
F. W. Woolworth
(1852-1919) Department Store Innovator
(While working in a dry goods store at 21, his employers wouldn't let him
wait on a customer because he "Didn't have enough sense.")
Frank
Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) Architect
Orville Wright (1871-1948) Airplane Developer
Wilber Wright (1867-1912) Airplane Developer
William Wrigley, Jr.
(1933-1999) Chewing Gum Maker
William Butler Yeats
(1865-1939) Irish Author
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